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John Adams, Composer

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One of America’s most admired and respected composers, John Adams (b. 1947) is a musician of enormous range and technical command. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of their themes. Over the past 25 years, Adams’s music has played a decisive role in turning the tide of contemporary musical aesthetics away from academic modernism and toward a more exp...

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NEC Philharmonia, Wolff / Beetho...

New England Conservatory

CROSSFIRE @ Luce Loft

Art of Élan

Adams: Violin Concerto

Orchestra of St. Luke's

If You Love for Beauty

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Adams: Harmonielehre

Composer: John Adams

Conductor: Marin Alsop

Ensemble: Cabrillo Festival Orchestra

Venue: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium (Santa Cruz)

Recording Date: Wed 3 Aug 2005

Excerpt / 2005 (0:57)

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Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony

Composer: John Adams

Conductor: Hugh Wolff

Ensemble: New England Conservatory Philharmonia

Doctor Atomic Symphony (25:08)

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Adams: John's Book of Alleged Dances

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Composer: John Adams

Artists: Kate Hatmaker (Violin); Pei-Chun Tsai (Violin); Travis Maril (Viola); Alex Greenbaum (Cello)

Judah to ocean (2:16)

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Habanera (4:45)

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Dogjam (2:46)

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Adams: Shaker Loops

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Composer: John Adams

Artist: Gideon Kremer

Conductors: John Adams; Kent Nagano

Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's

Recording Date: Wed 1 Jun 1994

Shaking and Trembling (8:25)

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Hymning Slews (5:09)

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Loops and Verses (6:55)

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A Final Shaking (3:57)

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Adams: Am I in Your Light? from Doctor Atomic

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Composer: John Adams

Artist: Sasha Cooke (Mezzo Soprano)

Conductor: Yehuda Gilad

Ensemble: Colburn Orchestra

Venue: The Colburn School: Herbert Zipper Hall (Los Angeles)

Recording Date: Tue 7 Feb 2012

Am I in Your Light? from Doctor Atomic (5:46)

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Cleveland Orchestra: Bela Fleck All American

Lincoln in Cleveland

Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine Fleck: Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra (Bela Fleck, banjo ) Copland: Suite from Billy the Kid Gershwin:...

John Adams ; Aaron Copland ; Béla Fleck ; George Gershwin ; Béla Fleck ; Giancarlo Guerrero ; The Cleveland Orchestra ;

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Friction Quartet to perform at ODC

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Last March, when I sampled Hot Air Festival 2012, organized and run entirely by students of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, I singled out ...

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John Adams in Sonoma

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Music Man John Adams is performing this weekend in Sonoma: An All American Celebration Stravinsky/ Suite from The Soldier's Tale (1918...

John Adams ; George Gershwin ; Philip Glass ; Jeffrey Kahane ;

6 months ago

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'Nixon In China': An American Opera Inches...

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Twenty-five years ago today, Houston Grand Opera mounted the world premiere of Nixon in China, the first opera by a young composer named John Adams .

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'Nixon In China': An American Opera Inches...

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John Adams' first opera premiered 25 years ago today at Houston Grand Opera. Not only did Nixon in China bring recent history on stage, it ushere...

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Top Compositions

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1.	Short Ride in a Fast Machine

2.	The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra)

3.	Doctor Atomic Symphony

4.	Shaker Loops

5.	Doctor Atomic

6.	Nixon in China

7.	Slonimsky's Earbox

8.	Harmonielehre

9.	Quartet for Strings

10.	The Wound-Dresser

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Percussion Ensemble/Haas/Boyd

29 Jul 2013

Harris Concert Hall

Ensaio Aberto: Osesp, Guerrero / Trifonov / Daughert...

7 Nov 2013

Sala São Paulo

Osesp, Guerrero / Trifonov / Daugherty, Rachmaninov,...

7 Nov 2013

Sala São Paulo

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JONAS KAUFMANN & DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY SINGS IN MOSCOW "O SOLE MIO" LIVE

James Alexander on John Adams's "A Flowering Tree"

Jessica Rivera on John Adams's "A Flowering Tree"

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Raining Acorns: Slouching Toward Lach...

http://rainingacorns.blogspot.co...

Second in the "Slouching" series, this article explores Minimalism.

Da Camera visits ‘New Worlds' in upco...

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Delaware Symphony Orchestra's emotion...

http://www.delawareonline.com/ap...

PSO - "Rach and Romance"

http://www.portlandsymphony.com/...

Mercury News: Adams's String Quartet ...

http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/...

This is an excerpt from the review of Adams' new quartet premiere at Stanford Univ.

John Adams: Official Web Site

http://www.earbox.com/

With the upcoming Indiana premiere of Adams' new String Quartet by the St. Lawrence Str...

Metropolis Ensemble

http://www.metropolisensemble.org

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